The team of the Darths & Droids screencap webcomic have produced The Force Awakens Bingo, which contains predictions about Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Are you seeing The Force Awakens soon? Get at least twice the fun by printing out one of our Force Awakens bingo cards and playing in the cinema! (No spoilers - we're just guessing what may or may not happen in the movie. We don't know any more than you!)

Update: For most of the questions, a one-line answer suffices. For events that clearly didn't appear on screen, like building a new lightsaber, just a "no" suffices. For events that did occur, like the Wilhelm's Scream, please mention the scene where it occurs. Only a very few predictions (near misses or ambiguous occurances) merit explanations, but it may be better to link to a separate question in that case (eg. on whether the antagonists in this film are Sith).

Update: The two answers disagree on predictions on 21, 30, 33.

Someone gets a hand cut off

Someone has a bad feeling about “this”

BB-8’s head comes off

C-3PO says how many forms of communication he’s fluent in

Wilhelm scream

An alien talks with subtitles

“May the Force be with you.”

Something is a trap!

Percussive maintenance on the Millennium Falcon

Chewie welds something

R2-D2 plugs into a computer terminal socket

Han shoots someone first

Someone we thought was dead turns out to be alive

A Force ghost appears

Someone constructs a new lightsaber

Jar Jar Binks

A new single biome planet

Hyperdrive malfunction

A yellow lightsaber

An alien animal attacks!

An asteroid field!

Lightsaber wield combo more epic than ever seen before

New fighter named after a letter of the alphabet

Summon bigger fish!

Someone serving bizarre alien drinks

Alien band plays music

Vehicle hovers when it would work just as well or better with wheels

Bottomless pit without a railing

Transparent computer display

Sign or display in Aurebesh script

A new Force ability

Big “Noooooo!!”

Someone gets Force choked

Alien speaks English in an ethnic accent

Alien speaks alien language and Han replies in English

Someone mentions midi-chlorians

Lens flare

Clock wipe between scenes

Line that gets more amusing if you replace “Force” with “pants”

Lightsaber used for a non-combat purpose

R2-D2 falls over

C-3PO is damaged

On-screen kiss

Someone says “I love you.”

John Williams score reprises a theme from original trilogy (credits don’t count)

R2-D2 uses a tool we’ve never seen before

Scene involving food

Vehicle with legs

Giant monster based on real world insect or other small animal

Creature that lives in vacuum of space

Jedi mind trick

Line repeats never before repeated line from original trilogy

An escape pod ejects from a ship

Blaster shot ricochets and kills someone

Bigger than life size hologram

Someone is immune to Jedi mind tricks

Real world unit of measurement (e.g. metres, parsecs)

Running duel moves from one location to another

Someone foresees the future

Someone swings on a rope or vine

Character who died in first six movies mentioned by name

C-3PO says something about space travel

Death of an original trilogy character

Obvious video game level scene

New alien species obviously designed to appeal to kids

Someone is identified as a clone

A bad guy successfully shoots someone

Mooks firing en masse and repeatedly missing

Droids walk through a crossfire without getting hit

Sith apprentice kills master

Sith master arranges death of apprentice

A droid fixes a spaceship

R2-D2 sits in an astromech port in a spaceship

Darth X, where X prefixed with “in” is a word

Notes.

The above is my transcript of the cards. The question is about the original cards, so whenever my transcript is incorrect, edit the above and answer about the originals.

Some of the predictions may be funnier if you are familiar with the webcomic, but it should be possible to understand every prediction without that.

Some of the predictions use TvTropes lingo, but only the more transparent of it.

For close voters: Note that finite, definitively answerable list questions are considered on-topic on this site.
– KutuluMikeDec 26 '15 at 13:46

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For close voters. This question already has two answers, and any new information can be edited into them. Strike the question down and it will become more powerful than you'd ever realize.
– b_jonasDec 26 '15 at 16:04

@MikeEdenfield - the problem with this question (insofar as it has a problem, which is debatable in the first place :) isn't that it is a "list" question but that it contains several independent questions - typically, we close as "too broad" or at least drastically edit a question when it contains two independent questions.
– DVK-on-Ahch-ToJan 7 '16 at 15:22

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UPDATE: several major updates including NOs becoming "part yes" or "maybe" as of 2015/01/19

All quotes below, unless otherwise noted, are from WGA script. Some may be from Alan Dean Foster's novelization of TFA, the style is absolutely different so they are easy to tell apart. Anything with tons of CAPITALIZATION is a script :).

Someone gets a hand cut off

No. Yes if you widen the interpretation a LOT.

There are suspicions that Finn's was. Neither the film nor novelizations are quite clear on what his injuries were, other than they were inflicted by a lightsaber and life-threatening. We'll know in Episode VIII.

HOWEVER, Chewie literally rips someone's arm off in the Foster novelization:

Grabbing the thrusting arm, a roaring Chewbacca twisted and ripped it off at the shoulder, throwing the dismembered limb clear across the room. Looking down at himself, Plutt let out a scream of agony as his underlings hurriedly fell back.

Please note that this scene is unique to the novelization and NOT in the theater film release (perhaps a deleted scene?). But the novelization is fully Disney canon.

Someone has a bad feeling about "this"

Yes. Han, of course.

That was when the lights began to flicker. Laughter faded as Kanji and Guavian alike regarded the now sporadic illumination with uncertainty. Distant components cycling on and off filled the corridor with a clicking and gnashing like the cries of a thousand mechanical insects. Han’s eyes widened. With Chewie moaning beside him, he murmured softly.
"I got a bad feeling about this."

No. Checked the book text and the script for "communication", "million" and "language" too.

HOWEVER, he actually, unlike the prior films, "shows, not tells", his skills!

In the novelization, wholly fulfilling his ANH-stated function of "human-cyborg relations", he figures out how to query all the Droids in the Galaxy (it seems) and finds BB-8 for Leia at Maz's castle, thus making sure Resistance arrives to save the heroes there on time.

Kinda, Maybe. From a certain point of view. Depends on how you define "alien", "subtitles" and "is" :)

GA-97 (droid who reported to Resistance from Maz's cantina that the heroes were on Takodana) speaks in Binary and has subtitles.

A SMALL DROID (GA-97), who turns its head to see BB-8 following Rey across the room. GA-97, now animated, makes a small TRANSMITTING SOUND, which is subtitled.
GA-97
Alert the Resistance. Their missing droid is here!

The gangster Tasu Leech! (talking to Han, naturally).

However, he is human; not alien, strictly speaking.

"Tasu Leech! Good to see you!"
Han knew perfectly well that Tasu Leech would never deign to speak Basic, so he was not surprised when the man replied in another language—one with which Han was, fortunately, familiar.
"Wrong again, Solo. It’s over for you, and for your associate." Raising the weapon he held, Leech aimed it down the corridor.

Also, Maz speaks in some alien language, but instead of subtitles, she translates herself.

Also, we get subtitles when Bazine reports her spy report to First Order from Maz's. But as per Visual Dictionary, she's human as well.

Bazine enters a shadowy space, stealthily makes a call on a communicator. Clearly, BAZINE IS A SPY. Subtitled:
BAZINE
Inform the First Order... I've found the droid.

Rey replied in all seriousness. "But you’re also afraid. In sending me away, you’re—reminded."
Leia straightened. "You won’t share the fate of our son."
"I know what we’re doing is right. This is how it has to be. This is how it should be."
Leia smiled gently, reassuringly. "I know it, too. May the Force be with you."
(Foster Novelization)

He does stay behind at Maz's castle, to check Falcon but no welding is mentioned in film or script or novelization.

And he checks the Falcon before flying to Starkiller. A

And later before flying to Ah-Choo! - no welding either way.

R2-D2 plugs into a computer terminal socket

Conceptually, yes. 30 years ago, into Death Star, where he got Luke's map half.

In film, NO.

Han shoots someone first

Yes, but they had it coming (stormtroopers).

As a trope from ANH, no.

Someone we thought was dead turns out to be alive

Finn AND Resistance both thought that Poe died in TIE/se crash.

"They found his X-wing destroyed. Angle and depth of the blaster marks suggest it was blown up while still on the ground. Definitely First Order: The locals don’t have access to that kind of weaponry." His expression tightened. "There’s no indication he survived. It looks like we’ve lost him."

and

Finn studied him intently. "You look like you’re in one piece. I can hardly believe it. I thought you were dead: shot up in that TIE fighter we stole. I ejected. When I finally found the wreckage, I looked for you. Pulled your jacket out of your ship before it got swallowed by the sand. What happened to you?"

Not sure if it fits or not, but Finn was thought of as dead, or at least not sure to survive, even in-universe, till the Doctor assure Rey he would.

FINN, who lies, near death, not far from where the GROUND FELL AWAY. Rey falls to her knees near him, turns him over, sees his cauterized but possibly fatal wound.
REY
Finn! Finn...
Tears come to her eyes as she lifts him, holds his lifeless body in her arms. Snow flurries around them as she cries, holding this boy who she just met, who she already adores.

A Force ghost appears

Not visually. Yes in sounds.

We get voices from Obi-Wan (new and old) and Yoda, in Rey's flashback. Not sure if that counts.

It was a peaceful place, as was the case with most small communities situated on desert worlds

Forest? Green world (Takodana). I would say it may count but probably not.

THERE MAY HAVE been more beautiful worlds in the galaxy than Takodana, but if so, they were unknown to Han. Verdant and mild, flecked with bands of white cloud and necklaced with small seas and brightly reflective lakes...
"I didn’t know there was this much green in the whole galaxy," she said in awe.

Arctic/Ice (Starkiller)

The fleet of Star Destroyers stood off the white world. Spectacular and isolated, with a mean surface temperature varying from merely cold to permanently arctic...

Waterworld (Kevin Costner's Luke's planet)

The planet was mostly ocean, dotted with a sprinkling of towering islands formed of black rock: the throats of volcanoes whose slopes had long since eroded away. Greenery caped the stony flanks, falling in emerald waves toward the azure sea. Above the calm waters, flying creatures soared on wide wings of translucent white.

Hyperdrive malfunction

Yes. Kinda. But because Han forgot to turn something on.

"Come on, baby," Han was murmuring, "don’t let me down." He pulled on the main hyperdrive control.
Nothing.
"What?"
Reaching across to his side of the console, Rey calmly activated a control he had not touched and spoke matter-of-factly. "Compressor."

A yellow lightsaber

No (but partially yes).

The only 2 lightsabers we see are Kylo Ren's red, and Luke's old blue.

Yes. Falcon flies by the asteroid field near D'Qar right before before jumping to lightspeed to go find Luke. We also see the exact same asteroid field earlier, when Falcon flies to D'Qar with Han and Finn.

EXT. SPACE - DAY
The FALCON and surviving X-WINGS ROAR past camera toward a PLANET WITH GREEN FLORA AND A RING OF ASTEROIDS

Lightsaber wield combo more epic than ever seen before

No. Nothing and nobody will ever top Yoda in Episode II, or Dooku's skill.

Kylo Ren fighting Rey. Again, he's under the weather, so to speak, and she never held a LS before.

New fighter named after a letter of the alphabet

Not a fighter. We get only 3 fighters, T-70 X-Wings, and TIE/fo and TIE/sf.

BUT, we do get a brand new Upsilon-class assault shuttle. It isn't a fighter; and as other shuttles in old films, named after Greek alphabet, not Latin.

Summon bigger fish!

Strictly speaking, no. The only dangerous animals are Rathtars.

Conceptually, yes (if smaller fish is the gangsters from Death Gang or Kanjiklub and bigger fish are Rathtars).

Someone serving bizarre alien drinks

Yes. Maz Kanata's castle. Han even calls it a "watering hole"

"The galaxy’s full of watering holes, but nothing like this place. It’s been run by an old smuggler named Maz Kanata for a thousand years...

The entrance was open. A corridor led to a sizable open hall of neatly finished stonework where a hodgepodge of humans, humanoids, and distinctly nonhumans were engaged in what struck Finn as a perpetual round of eating, drinking, gambling, scheming....

Alien band plays music

Yes. Maz Kanata's castle has a very Mos-Eisley-ish alien band.

Visual Dictionary (page 73) covers it in details (as does this SE answer), its members are Taybin Ralorsa, Infrablue Zedbeddy Coggins, Ubert "Sticks" Quaril and Sudswater Dillifay Glon. No, I didn't make the names up - see the linked answer for screenshot.

According to Pablo Hidalgo's twitter, the names are meant to be "blues" invoking.

Vehicle hovers when it would work just as well or better with wheels

Too subjective to call.

Maybe, Ray's podracer-like speeder. I don't think so but some people do.

Bottomless pit without a railing

Yes. Han falls into one after being lightsabered by Kylo Ren (spoilers!)

Finally Han FALLS BACK, OFF THE CATWALK, INTO THE DEPTHS OF THE STRUCTURE!

Also, later, a bottomless planetary crack separates Rey and Ren

But she stops. Realizing she stands on a greater edge than even the cliff -- the edge of the dark side. The earth SHAKES. The earth splits. A gully forms.

Transparent computer display

Does map display count? Does hologram of Starkiller?

If that doesn't count, then we have this display showing Starkiller battle, that C-3PO points to saying "The weapon will be fully charged in 10 minutes":

Ignoring the fire of retreating stormtroopers, paying no attention to the blasts that gouged the dirt around him, Finn raced toward the shuttle—only to watch helplessly as it lifted off and rose toward the clouds. Irrationally, he tried to follow the dark spot as it rose higher into the sky, running beneath it until it shrank to a dot and then finally disappeared.
"No, no, no, no…Rey, Rey!"

Rey screams "No!" as Han is stuck with the lightsaber. In the novelization she just whispers, however.

Chewie screams something that almost everyone considers to be a Shyriiwook equivalent of a "Nooooo" after Han falls.

Someone gets Force choked

No. Not quite.

Kylo Ren Force-Flies an officer (who reported that "a girl" helped BB-8 escape) towards himself, and chokes him with his hand the same exact way Darth Vader choked Captain Antilles on Tantive IV in ANH. But that is NOT a Force Choke.

Alien speaks English in an ethnic accent

I don't think so.

Didn't notice this myself.

Didn't find anything on Google.

The only likely candidates were actually human (Admiral in the Resistance, and gangster Tasu Leech played by Indonesian actor - and he didn't speak "English" but Huttese - see #35).

Another candidate is Maz Kanata (several commenters said so). I am ESL so I'm not qualified to judge if the actress speaks with an accent - especially one speaking British English :)

Alien speaks alien language and Han replies in English

Yes.

First of all, Chewbacca. Like, well, D'uh!!!!

Barring that, if you count Tasu Leech as "alien" despite him being biologically human, that counts too.

"Tasu Leech! Good to see you!"
Han knew perfectly well that Tasu Leech would never deign to speak Basic, so he was not surprised when the man replied in another language—one with which Han was, fortunately, familiar. "Wrong again, Solo. It’s over for you, and for your associate." Raising the weapon he held, Leech aimed it down the corridor.

"Not now, Chewie! That won’t help." Han took a deep breath. "Guys! You’re all gonna get what I promised. The merchandise is here, the buyer is waiting. I just need to make the delivery. Have I ever not delivered for you before?"
Moving his hands deliberately and slowly, Tasu Leech made a show of activating his weapon. "Twice."
Han frowned. Leech was correct, of course, but Han wasn’t about to admit it. "Twice?"

"As you'll see in the Star Wars movie, I've allowed lens flares to take a very backseat [role] ... We're making sure it looks photo-realistic, [because] every time there could be a flare, I said, 'This is not the movie. These are not the flares you're looking for.'"

For example I noticed lens flare when Ren's lightsaber lights up; or when Falcon flies on Jakku, or when weird ship flies off of Jakku in Rey's Forceback.

Clock wipe between scenes

??? No idea. Didn't notice any. But Googling for that returns nothing

Line that gets more amusing if you replace "Force" with "pants"

Being I'm over 5 years old (as per SE's user agreement!), no.

This is really subjective, though.

But, since I haven't seen any mentions of this while Googling, I'll assume my opinion wins with the silent agreement of entire Internet.

It's also used as a message/relay, by Rey passing it to Luke at the end.

R2-D2 falls over

No. R2 is in very few scenes, mostly powered down. No falling over at all.

C-3PO is damaged

Not onscreen.

But he has a new red hand from before-screen events left unspecified except that it was a memento of another droid's "sacrifice" as per Visual Dictionary.

On-screen kiss

One-way only. Rey kisses Finn at the end.

A NEW DAY. Finn, unconscious in an I.C.U. POD. His fate uncertain. Rey sits with him. Deeply worried. Finally she leans in, close to him.
She kisses him and says, quietly, despite her fear:
REY
We'll see each other again. I believe that. Thank you, my friend.

Please note that no more kissing happens according to both novelization and WGA script text search.

Finn and Rey hug very romantically, till Han advises them to get a room "escape first, hug later":

INT. STARKILLER BASE - CORRIDOR 6 - DAY
Rey climbs up to the corridor, vigilant. She hears a SOUND, SWOOPS her rifle at -- Finn, Han and Chewie! She cannot believe it! All Finn wants to do is hug her -- and she him.

Han and Leia hug, but don't kiss.

Han places his hands on her shoulders. It could be thirty years ago.

Someone says "I love you."

Not in the film or the script or novelization (checked them using text search for "love").

In the novelization only, Han wants to, but Leia shuts him up before he can. The more I answer TFA questions, the less I like Leia :(

He put his hands on her shoulders, and thirty years fell away in an instant. "Leia, there’s something I’ve been wanting to say to you for a long time."
Fighting to hold back tears, she put a finger to his lips. "Tell me when you get back."

John Williams score reprises a theme from original trilogy (credits don’t count)

Yes. A full analysis would far exceed the margins of this post, but plenty of themese reprise, including all the main ones.

R2-D2 uses a tool we’ve never seen before

Does "Sleeping" count? If not, then no.

But his holoprojection of the map is WAY better than "mini-Leia" holo he showed in Episode IV

Scene involving food

Maz's Castle. Visual dictionary actually has details of what food they serve. Yum!

While Finn’s appetite had been sharpened by a trooper’s customary diet of synthsust, it was nothing compared to Rey’s. In spite of himself, he could only marvel at the amount of food the girl downed. It was as if she had never eaten real food in her life. Origins didn’t seem to matter, either. She grabbed and consumed examples of anything within reach without bothering to ascertain its genesis. Han also ate energetically, but he was considerably more decorous.

Also, Rathtar's eat!

Also, Rey eats green goo breakfast.

Vehicle with legs

There was a "Base defense walker" on Starkiller base. It is shown off to the right of the plaza where everyone listens to General Hux's speech (Visual Dictionary illustration of that speech has it too).

Giant monster based on real world insect or other small animal

Rathtars seem to be loosely based on Octopii or squids to an extent.

Happabore looks like a giant pig. But pigs aren't "insect or small animal" by any means.

Otherwise, no.

Creature that lives in vacuum of space

No.

Jedi mind trick

Yes. Rey JMTs James Bond.

Line repeats never before repeated line from original trilogy

Yes. Han says that Falcon made Kessel Run in 12 Parsecs.

The Millennium Falcon." She could not keep the wonder out of her voice. "This is the ship that made the Kessel Run in fourteen parsecs."
"Twelve parsecs." Entering the cockpit ahead of the others, Han scanned the console. A wave of something washed over the Millennium Falcon’s rightful owner (Novelization)

REY
This is the ship that made the Kessel Run in fourteen parsecs...!
INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT - SAME
Han enters the cockpit.
HAN
Twelve! Fourteen.

An escape pod ejects from a ship

Not from a capital ship.

But Finn escapes a TIE/sf in an ejection seat (not noted in any text but can see the seat + parachute in the movie).

Not quite. James Bond's Stormtrooper is immune on first 2 tries but succumbs on a third.

And Rey doesn't let Kylo Ren read her mind in the end - but does at the start, and it's NOT really a JMT (different Force Power).

Real world unit of measurement (e.g. metres, parsecs)

Yes.

The Millennium Falcon." She could not keep the wonder out of her voice. "This is the ship that made the Kessel Run in fourteen parsecs."
"Twelve parsecs." Entering the cockpit ahead of the others, Han scanned the console. A wave of something washed over the Millennium Falcon’s rightful owner

Running duel moves from one location to another

What does that mean? Yes, depending on how you define "location".

We have Finn dueling stormtrooper. Finn dueling Ren. Ren dueling Rey. They all run around like crazy when dueling.

Plus, we have tons of blaster shootouts that move between locations.

Someone foresees the future

Yes.

Rey's visions from touching the lightsaber include seeing her in the future on Starkiller, facing Ren in the forest in the snow.

Also, some people do it using logic, not stupid Jedi tricks.

Snoke foresees that Resistance will ASAP search for Luke's planet once they get the map.

Prediction 17 is a yes to me. When Rey arrives to Luke's planet, she says something like "I've never seen so much green". I take this as meaning that Jakku was a single biome desert planet enough for our purposes.
– b_jonasDec 26 '15 at 15:17

27 is probably just a disagreement about what wheels are good for, but can you clarify about 32? When did you hear a big Noooooo!!
– b_jonasDec 26 '15 at 15:41

@b_jonas thank you, edited
– user54256Dec 26 '15 at 15:56

@b_jonas: Rey say the "so much green" line when they arrive on Takodana (Maz Kanata's planet), not on Luke's planet.
– MarthaDec 26 '15 at 16:31

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I haven't seen the movie yet, but I've read tons about it, and everyone agrees that Kylo Ren freezes a blaster bolt in midair, which is clearly a new Force power. Vader may have absorbed blaster bolts from Han's blaster in ESB using the Force, or he may have simply taken the hit and not suffered any damage because of his armor, but even if the Force was involved there, he didn't freeze a blaster bolt in the air.
– Wad CheberDec 27 '15 at 20:35